Friday Quiz Questions

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L.V. DROUILLY
Brut Tradition

Drouilly is one of very few winemakers to use oak aging across his range of champagnes. Created exclusively from the harvest of 2006, this blend of 80% Pinot Noir and 20% Chardonnay has been rested partly in oak barrels, which gives it a deep gold colour and rich earthy flavour. This champagne is one of only a handful to have won 3 stars in the Guide Hachette 2011.


With UK equities markets starting to look a bit like the good old days, we here at Alliance News thought we would restart the great tradition of the Friday news quiz.

The Friday Quiz soon will be a weekly feature of Alliance News Professional, with the questions published at noon each Friday and the winner revealed the following Friday.  For this special Goodacre event quiz, the deadline for answers is noon on Wednesday but in the future it will be noon on Monday.  Good luck!

    Question 1:

    Bank of England governor Mark Carney has set a 7% unemployment rate as the trigger for the bank to start considering interest rate increases. The latest official jobless figures were published September 11 for the three months to July. What was the unemployment rate?

    Question 2:

    TSB, formally known as Trustee Savings Bank, is back on British high streets 14 years after it was acquired by Lloyds Bank. When was TSB founded? 1800, 1810, or 1820?

    Question 3:

    London fashion week goes from strength to strength and is pulling millions of pounds into the British economy. But which British fashion house sent its models down the runway in 1980s style legwarmers during this year’s London Fashion Week?

    Question 4:

    Vodafone completed one of the biggest deals ever made last month when it sold its stake in Verizon Wireless for USD130 billion. But how much of that is it giving back to its shareholders?

    Question 5:

    Which country links a USD370 million deal made by Glencore Xstrata, a GBP850,000 fine for Carnival Corp. and Vodafone’s ‘Project Spring’?

    Question 6:

    Notwithstanding ALL News’s traditionalism when it comes to Champagne with a capital “C”, it has been a bumper year for English wine growers and English wines are winning an increasing number of awards each year. In September, the wine investment company Shellproof took control of Gusbourne PLC, which makes sparking wine in West Sussex. But who is the famous man behind Shellproof?

    Question 7:

    Back in 2008, several UK companies, including WPP and UBM, threatened to move their headquarters to Ireland because of corporate taxes. But last month, an Irish building merchants said it would delist in Dublin and have its main listing on the LSE in order to join a FTSE index. Which company?

    Question 8:

    Tottenham play West Ham in one of the big London football derbies this weekend. Predict whether it’ll be a Spurs win, a Hammers win, or a draw.

    Question 9:

    Predict the closing level of the FTSE 100 next Thursday, October 9th.

    Question 10:

    The FTSE AIM AllShare index hit a high for the year for how many consecutive trading days at the start of September?

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